The Real timschochet

OK. I actually think the polls are overestimating Trump this time, and really underestimating Harris. But we will learn shortly who is right.

The hypocrisy of Republicans blaming Democrats for this idiot while at the same time keeping silent as Trump and Vance spread lies about Hatian refugees which are already creating fear, hatred and death threats, is really shameful. I was going to write that it’s beyond belief, but while it should be it isn’t. The Republican Party has lost its collective mind. Hopefully after Trump loses it might get it back, but at this point I’m really not sure.

Based on what? Your intuition? She’s ahead in both states.

All the polls now looking good for Kamala Harris: https://www.axios.com/2024/09/17/harris-leads-trump-poll-after-debate-record

Yeah Sirius. There’s a progressive talk station and a couple of conservative ones.

It didn’t prove otherwise. He was stopped by guardrails. He almost wasn’t. This time the guardrails will be a lot weaker.

But what caused these “low intelligence” people to accuse him? Why Trump and no other candidates?

New USA poll out tonight has Harris winning by 3 points in Pennsylvania. Thats within the margin of error, so still effectively a tie. But better than before for her, when she was a couple points down. If she wins North Carolina she won’t need Pennsylvania (but it’s likely if she wins North Carolina she’ll win Pennsylvania as well.)

Agreed, it would be.

Another thing @jerryskids should answer: why exactly was Trump asked this question in the first place? No other Presidential candidate, Republican or Democrat, has ever been asked about wanting to be a dictator. What is it about Trump that makes this a pertinent query?

Your analysis would be 100% except for the fact that there’s a larger context of Trump making months worth of statements about abrogating the Constitution, throwing his enemies in prison, calling for the executions of generals, admiring strongmen like Viktor Orban, curtailing the press, etc, etc., all of the actions of a would be dictator. In each case you can find excuses and justifications as you did here. But when you examine them all together it is a very troubling pattern which you really can’t ignore unless you are deliberately determined to do so (and it kind of appears that you are.)

They are. But no answers yet. I’ve been perusing talk radio. On the conservative stations, the thinking seems to be that the government is actively helping these individuals try to assassinate Donald Trump and that’s how this idiot knew where he’d be. Honestly that seems extremely unlikely to me. On the progressive stations, a lot of the thinking is that Trump planned this whole thing himself, was never in any danger, and THAT’S how this idiot knew where Trump would be. But that seems equally as unlikely to me, perhaps even more so. I really have trouble buying into these sorts of intricate plots no matter which side they’re from. And yet….I still don’t know how this guy knew where Trump would be. I can’t quite believe he simply guessed. So I’m stumped.

The head of the Secret Service said that this golf course was an unplanned visit for Donald Trump (he owns 3 courses in the area.) So how did the gunman, who reportedly hid in the bushes for 12 hours, know Trump was gonna be there? Did he just get incredibly lucky or did somebody tell him? I’m the last guy who buys into conspiracy theories, and I won’t buy into one here. But this doesn’t make any sense.

You’re being lied to again. The Haitian refugees weren’t dumped there. They were invited.

Is Kamala surging in North Carolina? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/16/harris-north-carolina-decisive/ We’ll know early election night if she wins that state. And if she does the race is basically over.

Thanks for the info. Very interesting. Can an expert sniper really make a shot from 500 yards? That seems amazing.

The think the point is that nobody would mock Trump over being shot at. Because most people have a sense of decency.

Not to mention the MAGA dude in Pittsburgh who shot up all the Jews because of the Great Replacement theory. Or the MAGA dude in El Paso who murdered all the Hispanics because of Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric. Or all the death threats that Haitian Americans have received in the last week. Let’s be clear: by far the biggest inciter of violence in this country is Donald Trump. It’s not even a close call. He has created this era of division and hatred that we are currently in, and it will last until he is finally defeated in the election.

And here.

This is why the MAGA folks have no credibility. Right here.

You’re right that he’s a moron but I’m not really arguing with him so much as I’m organizing my own thoughts.

So I have a question for those that know guns better than I do (which is probably most of you): They said he was 500 yards away from Trump with an AR-15. At what range would an average guy be able to hit someone with that weapon? 100 yards? 200 yards? More? Or do you have to be a trained sniper to be accurate from 100 yards or more?

In the Dead Zone, Stephen King’s hero (and alter-ego) John Smith is a psychic and dying of a brain tumor. He learns through his psychic powers that a politician named Greg Stillson (with many similarities to Trump which is creepy because this book was written in 1979) will someday be President, become a dictator and bring on a nuclear war. Faced with that dilemma Smith decides to assassinate Stillson. It was a thought experiment by King and an attempt in fiction to justify an assassin. But we don’t live in a fictional world. Here there are no psychics that can tell us for sure what happens next. Here there is no justification for assassination of an American politician.

You know I was thinking today of the novel The Dead Zone by Stephen King. Have you read it?

Of course it could because anyone can take what anyone says and turn it into something it’s not. That doesn’t make it incendiary.